UC Links, UCLA School of Education & Information Studies
and UCLA Undergraduate Programs for Community
Engagement present

"University-Community Partnerships for Transformative Education:
Sowing Seeds of Resistance and Renewal"

Book Launch with Co-Editors

Wednesday, October 1, 2024
Moore Hall, Rm 3340
3:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. PDT
RSVP here

This edited open access volume reports on a unique network of innovative in- and out-of-school programs: University-Community Links. UC Links connects university faculty and students with young people and their families in diverse urban communities around the world. Come learn about community engaged work throughout the UC and CSU system and around the world!

Speakers & Co-Editors:

Mara Welsh Mahmood is the executive director of UC Links and a developmental psychologist (Ph.D., UC Riverside) interested in learning across multiple contexts. Starting in 1996, Mahmood worked with UC Riverside faculty and teachers/administrators at the Riverside Unified School District to develop the UC Links after school programs and teach the undergraduate course there. Mara went on to work at the UC Links Statewide Office from 1998 to 2004 as the director of site development and evaluation. After taking a break from academia to spend time with her two children and work in the consulting world, Mara returned to the statewide office in 2018 as associate director, and then served as interim executive director before assuming the role of executive director in 2021.

Marjorie Elaine, is professor of urban schooling at the UCLA School of Education & Information Studies (SE&IS), associate vice provost of the UCLA International Institute and co-director of faculty for the Teacher Education Program at UCLA GE&IS. Her research centers on the experiences of immigrant youth in urban schools and communities, including as language and cultural brokers for their families. She is the author of “Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth and Cultures” (Rutgers, 2009); “Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces: Language, Learning and Love” (Routledge, 2016); a 2019 co-edited volume (with Inmaculada García-Sánchez), “Language and Cultural Processes in Communities and Schools: Bridging Learning for Students from Non-Dominant Groups” (Routledge, 2019); and “Mindful Ethnography: Mind, Heart and Activity for Transformative Social Research” (Routledge, 2019). Elaine is past president of the Council of Anthropology and Education and was a bilingual classroom teacher in Los Angeles from 1983 to 1993.

John Cano is associate director of UC Links. An educational technology scholar (Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara), Cano is interested in how technology-mediated learning environments can enhance the learning experience of K-12 and higher education students. He also studies student engagement, online education, digital citizenship, intercultural education and informal learning in after-school settings. Can has worked at multiple universities in his home country (Colombia) as an adjunct faculty member, researcher and instructional designer before coming to UC Santa Barbara in 2017 to pursue his Ph.D. He joined the UC Links statewide office in 2022.

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Sponsor(s): UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, UC Links, UCLA Undergraduate Programs for Community Engagement